The botanist's repository, for new, and rare plants : containing coloured figures of such plants, as have not hitherto appeared in any similar publication, with all their essential characters, botanically arranged, after the sexual system of the celebrated Linnaeus : in English and Latin : to each description is added a short history of the plant, as to its time of flowering, culture, native place of growth, when introduced, and by whom (1797)
Author: Andrews, Henry Charles, fl. 1799-1828; Bensley, Thomas, ca. 1760-1835, printer; Haworth, Adrian Hardy, 1768-1833; Kennedy, John, 1759-1842; Jackson, George, d. 1811; Smith, John Donnell, 1829-1928, donor. DSI
Volume: v 3 - 4
Subject: Plants, Cultivated; Botany; Flowers
Publisher: London : Printed by T. Bensley, and published by the author ... : To be had of J. White, Fleet-street, and all the booksellers
Language: English; Latin
Call number: 39088015704638
Digitizing sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library
Book contributor: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Collection: biodiversity
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Text of v. I-V "probably written by John Kennedy ..., v. VI by A. Haworth, v. VII-X by George Jackson" -- Cf. Stafleu
Printed t.p. present in v. I only; engraved title pages lack imprint
Originally issued in 137 monthly parts (Cf. ESTC)
Plates are unsigned but were drawn and engraved by the author--Cf. Cleveland collections, p. 598
Plates are hand-colored
Each v. with errata on verso of or at foot of index leaf except for v. I where errata on verso of preface
Includes indexes; additional indexes for v. I-V bound at end of v. VI and for VI-X bound at end of v. X
ESTC
Stafleu & Cowan. Taxonomic lit. (2nd ed.)
Johnston, S.H. Cleveland collections
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SCNHRB has two copies
SCNHRB c. 1 (39088015704596, 39088015704638, 39088015704679, 39088015704711, 39088015704752) stamped on t.p.'s: Smithsonian Institution National Museum [ms. acc. no.] 242403
SCNHRB c. 1 bound in 5 vols. in three-quarters brown sheepskin and marbled paper boards, title in gilt on spine, green endpapers; uncut; bookseller's ticket: William Wesley & Son, London. Printed bibliographical description attached to front free endpaper of v. I
SCNHRB c. 2 (39088015704794, 39088015704836, 39088015704877, 39088015704919, 39088015704950) without the general printed t.p. Indexes for each v. bound in front; indexes for v. I-V and VI-X both bound in v. X
SCNHRB c. 2 has Smithsonian Institution bookplate with donor's name, John Donnell Smith, in ink
SCNHRB c. 2 stamped on engraved t.p.'s: Smithsonian Institution Special Collections Sep 10 1929
SCNHRB c. 2 bound as 5 vols. in tan calf with unidentified gilt armorial on front and back covers, title in gilt on spine, marbled endpapers, gilt edges; measures 28 cm; housed in archival cardboard boxes
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